The Lightning Dragon Knight

Chapter 4: Hunting Soul Crystals

The next day, the,

Right now, Rai and Raiden are eating the recently slaughtered beef. They eat like people who never eat.

After eating, Rai cleaned up the food marks inside the cave, "Raiden, is there a Hell Beast around here that is stronger than the Black Fire Monkey?" tanya Rai in the middle of her cleaning activities.

"Around here are 3 Hell Beast nests. The Hell Poison Snake with Red stage Immortal level. The Giant Green Scorpion with the White level Immortal stage. And the Dark Tiger with the Purple stage Immortal level," Raiden replied.

"It's hard enough, yeah. Alright, I better absorb the Soul Crystal from the leader of the Black Fire Monkey," Rai said then took out a Soul Crystal with a great aura of natural energy.

Rai immediately sat cross-legged and concentrated. Meanwhile, the Soul Crystal from the Black Fire Monkey he placed in front of his body. After concentrating enough, Rai began to absorb the natural energy present within the Soul Crystal.

***

A week later,

The absorption done by Rai, is almost complete. The natural energy within the Soul Crystal had already been absorbed and it was just a matter of time for Rai to ascend to the next stage.

Shortly after, a purple-coloured inscription shadow, emerged from within Rai's body. Then, the inscription went back into Rai's body.

The exit and entrance of the purple inscription shadow, continued to last up to 4 times. Which indicates that Rai's cultivation level has gone up by 4 stages.

"Well... Finally finished. The Mortal General Junior stage. With this I can face the Giant Green Scorpion" said Rai excitedly.

"You better move fast. Because, the Giant Green Scorpion will begin its cultivation. If you can bother him, your winning percentage could increase by as much as 20 percent" Raiden said.

Hell Beast or Heaven Beast, can also cultivate. However, the way is different from humans. They were cultivating by eating the spirits or souls of other beasts. Although there are those who absorb Soul Crystals, but usually it is a high-level beast. After all, absorbing other spirit or soul beasts was also capable of instantly increasing power for Hell Beast and Heaven Beast.

"alright. Thanks for the info, Raiden," said Rai then disappeared from the cave.

"What an interesting young man. Master Siegfried, your chosen youth is indeed the best," Raiden muttered after Rai disappeared from the cave.

***

After disappearing, Rai reappears in front of the Green Giant Scorpion's nest. Before fighting, Rai lurks again from the top of the tree. However, Rai was a little surprised, as he saw the fight between the Giant Green Scorpion against the 5 people dressed all in black with the red centipede emblem.

"Red Centipede Bandits? Didn't they already.." Rai's words stopped instantly.

"Oh, so they live here. After taking out my entire family, you survived in this forest, huh? All right, it's time to take the first step of revenge" Rai said.

He then took out the Sky Lightning Sword from his sleeve. Then, it disappeared from the tree and reappeared in the middle of the fight.

"Little Dragon Fierc! Level 1: Purple Dragon Slash!" said Rai.

Then, a silhouette of a purple dragon coated in lightning slashed the sword of the Sky Lightning Sword. Rai swung his sword towards the Giant Green Scorpion and had both of his claws cut off.

"SIIIAAKKK..."

The scorpion screamed in pain. He pointed his poison-filled tail towards Rai. However, the attack was still slow in front of Rai. Just as the attack was about to hit Rai, he disappeared from there and reappeared behind the Giant Green Scorpion.

"Eightteen Lightning God Slashes!" said Rai.

Rai swung his sword eighteen times. Then, the twelve slashes of the sword slashed towards the Giant Green Scorpion. The Giant Green Scorpion's tail was cut off from its body and cut into pieces.

"SIIIAAKKK..."

The scorpion cried out in pain, after its tail was broken. He could only resignedly wait for his death after his claw and tail were slashed. Actually, the scorpion could have escaped. But, he knew that he would not be able to last long despite escaping his cave.

"Light of Lightning Lifesaving!" said Rai.

He then took the stance of the horses then darted while slashing his sword into the body of the Giant Green Scorpion. As soon as Rai stopped, the body of the Giant Green Scorpion suddenly split apart and his Soul Crystal landed in Rai's hands.

"Thank you, young man. Now please give us the Soul Crystal with your sword" said one of the 5 Red Centipede Bandits.

Instead of answering, Rai smiled widely and turned to face the five people. He inserted his Soul Crystal and sword into the storage ring.

Rai threw the ring up. Meanwhile, the five Red Centipede Bandit members were seen wanting to jump immediately and catch the storage ring. Yet...

Zrat... Zrat... Zrat... Zrat... Zrat...

There was the sound of five slashes. And along with that, the five heads of the Red Centipede Bandit members detached from his head.

"Curtain! Basic bandit. If you have seen the treasure, everything is forgotten. Really naive. Now it's my turn to be a bandit" Rai said.

He then sheathed back the Sky Lightning Sword and stored it within the storage ring he had just captured. After which, Rai took out all the storage rings from the Red Centipede Bandit members.

Rai then exited the cave. However, he did not go back to the place where Raiden lived. He wandered around for a while while searching for the Immortal-level Hell Beast's lair downwards.

"Hm... How can I increase my strength without having to do time-consuming absorption, huh?" think Rai in the middle of the journey.

"Let me check inside the storage ring" he said.

Rai then inspected his own storage ring and the storage ring belonging to the five bandits. And as a result, there were 22 intermediate-tier pills and 5 high-tier pills.

For the pills themselves, it has several levels that distinguish its quality and efficacy. Quality level on the pill, among others :

Low

Intermediate

High-ranking

Sky

Heaven

The most commonly encountered pills were low and medium level pills. High-level pills were usually owned by nobles, large sects, as well as families or large clans. And as for heaven and heaven-level pills, it was extremely difficult to find.

Some people say that heaven and heaven pills are a myth. Some people say it is a fact. And to Rai himself, Heaven and Heaven level pills were a fact. Because if there is a Heaven and Heaven level, there must also be goods, although very rare. That's his thinking.

After finishing checking, Rai returned to his place and Raiden stayed. He took out the entire pill and swallowed 3 intermediate-tier pills.

***

3 Days later,

The cultivation done by Rai had taken him up 2 stages. Who was previously at the Mortal General Junior level, was now a Mortal General Professional stage. He, then swallowed another 5 pieces of intermediate level pills.

And during these few days, Rai continued to swallow the intermediate level pills he had. And as a result, his cultivation level rose by 6 stages. Now he was at the Senior-stage Immortal General stage.

"It's time to absorb the Soul Crystal of the Giant Green Scorpion" Rai said.

He took out the Giant Green Scorpion's Soul Crystal and placed it in front of his body and started cultivating again.

***

After a few days, the natural energy contained within the Soul Crystal had been completely absorbed. And now, that natural energy had entered Rai's body and was ready to raise his cultivation level.

Shortly after, a shadow of purple-coloured inscription appeared that came out from within Rai's body and entered back. This event repeated up to 3 times. And now, Rai's cultivation level had reached the level of an Immortal General of the Legend stage.

He opened his eyes and moved from his seat. Rai directly exited the cave and headed towards the lair of the Hell Poison Serpent.

Raiden who saw that just smiled. Because the nature shown by his master was the same as his nature when trained by Master Siegfried.

"You look a lot like me, sir," Raiden murmured.